I don't own Hamtaro

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Pashmina returned to the club house. "Hey, Bijou. Has my sister come back yet?"

"Your sister? No, I haven't seen her all day, Pashmina"

"I saw her earlier, playing with Cappy and Stucky in the trees" Panda volunteered, "but I haven't seen any of them for hours."

Pashmina was worried. The rain was pouring outside and the wind was picking up. She had asked everyone in the clubhouse if they had seen any of the three kids but with no luck "Maybe they found a cave or something and decided to wait for the storm to end." Boss said, hopefully

"Maybe" Pashmina replied miserably as she went to wait at the door. The other hamsters watched her leave the room. "Poor Pashmina." Bijou said.

In the cave, Penelope was staring out into the rain. "It doesn't look like it's going to let up soon, does it?" Jingle asked the little hamster. "I hope your friends will be okay. The one with the hat was hurt pretty badly when I found you three." Penelope listened to the song he was playing on his guitar. "Pashmina would like this song." she thought, "I bet she's looking for me right now. Hey, I bet she would really like Jingle."

"Would you like something to eat, Little Hamster? There's plenty here."

Penelope rolled over, painfully and gratefully accepted the seeds and water Jingle gave her. Then sleep claimed her.

In the morning after the rain stopped, Jingle picked up Stucky, who was still unconscious and the three began to walk down to the creek. Penelope looked around at the forest. She didn't recognize anything. "I don't think we're anywhere near the clubhouse" she thought nervously. Jingle led the two little hamsters down to a creek. Penelope noticed the creek was much wider than the one near the club house. Jingle began walking right beside it. "Okwee?" Penelope asked.

"If we follow this creek through the town, we should eventually get to the place you three fell in." Jingle replied as he strummed his guitar. Penelope walked beside Cappy, who had a large bandage wrapped around his head.

At about noon, Stucky woke up. "Where's my bottle cap?" (I'm calling it a bottle cap because I don't know what it is he rolls around in.)

"You must have lost it in the creek, Stucky." Cappy said to him as he desperately searched for it, "I lost my pot and Penelope lost her yellow thing" Stucky looked really sad. "As the water flows away so does time. And with it goes material belongings." Jingle hummed from ahead of them. "I know that it's just a bottle cap but it means a lot to me." Stucky said sadly as he followed behind the others.

At the club house, the other hamsters had been searching all day for the Penelope, Cappy and Stucky. "Where could they be? We've been searching all morning." Boss said. In the bushes by the creek, Bijou noticed something. She reached out to grab it but tripped over a loose tree root. "Ow." she said as she fell to the ground. "May I help you, Bijou?" Dexter said as he offered her his hand. "Merci, Dexter. Thank you."

"It is no problem, Bijou." he said as he smiled at her, "No problem at all. Why are you in here anyway?"

"Oh, I found this." she replied as she showed him a piece of yellow cloth. "That's a piece of Penelope's yellow hat thing!" Dexter said, "We had better show this to Boss!"

"So you found this right beside the creek, Bijou?" Boss asked while he looked the cloth over. "Oui, right beside it."

"Hey, we found them! Or Jingle did. But we found Jingle!" Oxnard and Pepper called.

"Penelope." Pashmina called as she ran to hug her sister, "You're safe!"

Pashmina looked up as Jingle turned to walk away. "Wait, you saved my sister. Won't you stay here for a while?"

Jingle turned to look at her.

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Anyone with any suggestions for things to happen, please tell me. What do you think should happen? Should Jingle stay or will he say no? Please tell me!